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Pepperl+Fuchs acquired the stainless steel SLICE product platform for the pharmaceutical production and clean room environment.

SMT702 is available with a number of different Dillon FFT IP options. Prices subject to FFT core and configuration.

Visit the PLCopen Organization booth and see how PLCopen member companies are committed to control software standards that improve your quality and productivity.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

Website covers everything from small, compact products to large operator panel interfaces and open PC-based solutions.

Carter, former president and CEO of Pavilion Technologies, was named president of Rockwell Software.

Catalog has over 115,000 products plus technical information and product photos.

Free Eclipse Ganymede-compliant embedded debugging solution runs on many standard evaluation boards for hosting on Windows and Linux platforms.

Stories cover environmental monitoring, power automation, FAB management, solar energy, factory automation, and security.

G-Tek, a software distributor and engineering firm in Ankara, Turkey, will resell and provide integration services for McObject's eXtremeDB and Perst database systems.

By Rick Zabel, Automation.com The proposed name change of ISA (to "International Society of Automation") is up for a vote again during ISA Expo in Houston, October 14-16, 2008. Last year, the change was voted down, but I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the change. And there are many reasons for the change. If ISA is truly the global society of automation professionals, then its name should reflect its cause. It's time for a change!

This office will serve as a regional center for Beckhoff customer training as well as for direct sales and application support.

ThinNation Road Show highlights the benefits of migrating to a Thin Client, centralized computing model for deployment of existing applications.

Catalogue contains industrial computing and networking equipment, including Ethernet switches, computers, I/O servers, and serial cards.

CEView HMI/SCADA software is certified to run on many popular mobile devices, including the AT&T 5700, MOTOQ Global, Pantech Duo, the Samsung BlackJack and BlackJack II.

National Instruments reported record quarterly revenue of $210.5 million, up 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008.

Could it be that high fuel prices, the weak dollar and crises in the U.S. manufacturing industry are creating opportunities? Andy Chatha of ARC Advisory Group thinks so. He says the U.S. industry has suddenly become competitive on the world market, and companies are no longer moving operations overseas. Instead, many are expanding their facilities, and he predicts a boom in automation right here in the U.S.

ABB reported record orders, revenues and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) in the second quarter of 2008, with net income reaching $975 million.

Booklet describes the 10 most common and costly errors that companies make when preparing product news releases.

Douglas Sharratt, lost his life in a plane crash in Sunriver, Oregon. ProSoft Technology names CFO, Gary Joke, his successor.